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JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 36, Issue 1-2, Pages 1-17Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-4105(02)00247-4
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crude oil; water-in-oil emulsions; near-infrared spectroscopy; electric fields; multivariate analysis
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Twenty-one crude oils and condensates of different origins have been thoroughly characterised including SARA (saturates, aromatics, resins, asphaltenes) data, interfacial elasticity, total acid number (TAN), density, viscosity, interfacial tension (IFT) and molecular weight. In addition all samples have been characterised by near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. A cell was developed to measure emulsion stability at applied electric fields. The cell produces values of stability of crude oil/water emulsions in a fast and simple manner. Emulsions of the 21 crude samples at different water cuts have been characterised by the electric field technique. The emulsion stability data have been correlated with both the physico-chemical data and NIR spectra. Asphaltene content and aggregation state, in addition to interfacial elasticity, are shown to be important contributions to emulsion stability as defined above. NIR spectra are shown to be informative with regard to emulsion stability. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V All rights reserved.
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